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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Aug 07, 1891

Page

7

Wool Market Hesitant Amid Tight Money and Steady Demand

Wool markets face restraint from a tight money market with 7 percent rates and cautious buyers. Activity slows though long-term prospects remain solid. Montana Oregon and Texas wools show varied pricing with top grades near 62c per pound. Domestic and foreign lots move, with delaine, combing, and carpet wools quoted across regions as overall demand steadies for pork, butter, and produce.

Texas New York California Montana Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania Territory Utah Wyoming Oregon Salambas Angora Khorassans Aleppos Bagdads Vickaniers

Stocks and Bonds Listings From Lynn and New England Banks

An 1891 notice lists numerous financial instruments and issuers across banks, railways, mills, and utilities. Names include State Street Exchange, Lynn Gas & Electric, Lincoln National Bank, Boston, Manchester Mills, Bates Mill Co, Eastern R.R. of New Hampshire, Salem Gas Light, and New England Tel. & Tel. Co, with various bond issues and maturity dates noted.

Lares State Street Exchange de Lynn Gas & Electric Light Co Port Townsend Washington State National Bank Lincoln Nat South End Bay State Gas Co Inc Boston Athletic Asso Callabie Fitchburg R. R Saginaw & Western R. R. Im Cleveland & Canton R. R. Equip. Trust Little Rock & Ft. Smith Ry. Co

Wholesale sugar and hogs markets show mixed steady quotes

Wholesale grocers report Seentest and refined sugar steady to fair, beet and cane quiet with unchanged molasses. In major markets Kansas City, Chicago, and Cincinnati hogs and cattle move varied with steady to lower prices. wool and grain trends mixed as wheat and corn face shifts in futures and spot values.

Java New Orleans Ponce Mayaguez Kansas City Cincinnati Pat Chicago Messrs. Gilman, Cheney & Co Messrs. Chamberlain, Burdett & Co Ork Cee Ceve Sereseee Ceeeesee New York Ceeseese Eesreess Eese2 Panuaty Cesseee Liverpool Auquse Augusta Galveston Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore St. Louis Louisville Consolidated Great Britain France

Receipts of staple goods yesterday and last year

The document lists daily receipts for 1891 and 1890 across staples such as cotton bales, wool, potatoes, flour, corn, apples, oats, rye, peanuts, pork, beef, lard, Hams, butter, cheese, grease, beans, and more. Numerous firms are named with various amounts, alongside New York steamer orders and park Alex entries.

Minnesota Chicago Canada Choice City New York Americas Liverpool Michigan P. E. Islands Nova Scotia Southern California Lima Jersey N.H. Rose Hebron Long Islands Bristol Ferry Jersey Rose North Carolina Virginia

Imports and Exports List of Ocean Freight at Ports

Export records from Aug 6 1891 show Boston steamer cargoes including flour corn meal boots and shoes hardware petroleum apples bananas watermelons peaches oranges pears and berry carriers. Caribbean and West Indies goods include ice vegetables codfish smoked haddock salmon lobsters beef butter cheese lager vitriol lard hardware canned fruit biscuits milk furniture marble dust beef pork and other staples sent from multiple Nova Scotia ports to Barbadoes Trinidad and Belgium via steamers and ships.

Yarmouth Boston Trinidad Port Williams Advocate Wolfville Windsor Amherst Sydney and Lockport Antwerp Belgium de Ruyter

Maritime cargo list from Halifax Yarmouth and ports

Shipping ledger from Halifax and Yarmouth shows steamer cargoes with mackerel salt fish lobsters and salmon plus fresh and frozen goods. Also records Singapore bound Iceberg shipment gambier pepper gum copal bolls rattans wool hides and sugar in multiple vessels and firms.

Halifax Barclay, Clements & Co James Emery Hull E T Russell King Whitney&Co W H Warren Yarmouth William Herrick Hamilton & Close J M Gardner American Express Singapore Temple RK Fay Syracuse Sicily Hecla

Foreclosure Sale of South Boston Lots Under 1872 Mortgage

By virtue of a power of sale in a mortgage deed from Eilen Oakes to Mary Bb. Jacobs dated December 1, 1872 and recorded, the premises in South Boston will be sold at public auction on Monday August 31, 1591 at 4 PM. The two lots include buildings and are described with bounds from Merin Court and neighboring parcels. Sale subject to unpaid taxes and assessments. Terms cash. James Morris, Assignee. 178 Washington Street, Boston.

Eilen Oakes Mary Bb. Jacobs Suffolk Boston South Merin Court A. Wadsworth Norfolk Harris Isaac Jones Bridget Quinn Oakes Luke Wellington Morni Morni Court Catherine Sweeney James Morris Washington Street Francis Baker Commonwealth of Massachusetts Elizabeth M. Bradford Roxpury Montrose Street Montrose Avenue William Whiting Charles Whitney John Budge Whiting Gray Bradford William P. Fewler State St Suffolk Ss Pearl Street Leonard & Co Bromfield Street Patrick F. Ishekley Henry W. Wilson Hunt & Coffin East Third Street Third Street Parker Luther Pdavis

Trust Company Ledger Fragment With Numerous Bank and Company Names

A fragmented ledger listing numerous banks and manufacturing firms, railroad lines, and trust company references. The garbled OCR shows Third National Bank, Nat Bank of Republic, Shawmut National Bank, Merrimack Manufacturing Co, Salmon Falls Mfg Co, Eastern Railways of NH, Consolidated R R of Vermont, Boston & Providence RR, American Waltham Watch Co, Amoskeag Mfg Co, Nashua Mfg Co, and many others, interspersed with partial notes like By Order of Trustee and paid marks.

Third N. Bank Bank of Republic Shawmut National Bank Nat Bk. Hill Mfg Merrimack Mfz. Co Salmon Falls Mfg Do Naumkeag Steain Cotton Boston Mfg Consolidated R. R Vermont Kansas City Scott Memphis West End Ft. Wayne & Jackson Eastern R. R New Hampshire Boston & Providence R. Co McKay & Bigelow Heeler Ft. Wayne Electric Co Fairbanks Co American Waltham Watch Co McKay & Bigelow Heeler Boston &Low Boat Co Fort Payne Coal & Iron Co American Loan & Trust Co B. A. Atkinson House Furnishing Co Boston Atheneum Amoskeag Mfg Boston & Philadelphia S Lancaster Mills Nashua Hamilton Mfg Berkshire R. RR Northern RR. of Nat. City Bank State N. Bank Shoe & Leather Bank Metropolitan N. Bank North Sat Georgia-Alabama Investment & Develop Albany Pat Do Putnam Nail Co Megantic Fish & Game Agro Geerift A Ra

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